AbleGamers.com

We are waiting for more up to date numbers from the 2010 census, but all the counts show that about 18% (about 51 million) of the entire US population is disabled. That is almost 2 in 10

ESA says 67% of all US households are gamers. So it is safe to say that 67% of the 51 million disabled people are gamers, or have games in the house.

So yes 1 in 10 people are disabled gamers...

Thanks Beau for covering the AbleGamers 2010 Disabled Gamers Holiday Guide. With 33 million gamers with disabilities in the US alone, most people here do not know how many of your online gaming friends are disabled.

Thanks for the support,
Mark Barlet, President
The AbleGamers Foundation.

I think you are missing the point. First, I am the President of the org that wrote the White Paper, so trust me, I know what I am talking about. The AbleGamers Foundation is a nonprofit that is run by disabled people for disabled people. The point of the paper is to show that making games more accessible will increase the market potential for game makers.

If you want a sad story and want me to guilt people into making games more accessible I can give you those, I can bring you to tears, but what point is that?

The face is the disabled and elderly community WANTS to be treated like ever other market. We do not really want your pity. We want to play games, we want to play great games. How better to get to that end than to make an argument about the market that the disabled population. I HAVE A JOB, I HAVE MONEY, NOW MAKE ME WANT TO GIVE IT TO YOU BY MAKING THINGS I CAN USE. It is that simple.

Companies everyday are working to get your money out of your wallet and into their hands, and it may shock you, but many disabled population is no different.

I am sorry Mr. Nook that you feel you need to use the words Cripple for shock value and did not even bother to understand who wrote the paper. It was not some slick marketing firm, it was a real nonprofit run by disabled gamers.

I invite you to check us out, http://www.ablegamers.org or our community site, http://www.ablegamers.com

Well for the record MOST of America does not have Saturday delivery in unless it is paid for, so I am hoping that Apple has worked something out with the UPS people...

We will include that in the future of game reviews. Thanks for the feedback

Thank you for the kind words!

We do read Joystiq, and yes you should go read a few reviews before you shoot off your mouth here. As old honest Abe said, "Sometimes It Is Better To Be Thought A Fool Than To Open Your Mouth And Remove All Doubt" I would read that a few times if I were you...

We would agree with you, but at the moment AbleGamers is not on the list of places that get review copies of the games, so we have to wait until someone on the team buys the game before we can review it. We are hoping that changes soon. Thank you for the support

This is Mark, Drake. Thanks for the kind words... Anything else you want to say about me? Do you want to take a second and bash the fact that I am disabled too? I was also a veteran, you want to take a few pop shots at my service?

pICK ME!